Chapter 4 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] I’ve just blown my schedule, so I’ve just blown my teaching program. We’ll just have to salvage it as best as can be. Okay, we’re working with taking and sending, working with mind training in daily life situations. This is under Application, page 37 in the booklet. This morning I talked about the whole notion of […]
Chapter 22 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] to in the past. I got a sense of how that might be experience-able. And another story I told myself was: “This practice is a lot like taking and sending. It exists in itself in the practice of willing it. Apart from actually going out and doing it, there is some effect that happens.” That was […]
Chapter 4 of “Practicing the Diamond Sutra”
[…] the point. So that’s one thing to keep in mind. I know two very, very, present day, distinguished teachers, I’m pretty sure their main practice has been taking and sending, Mahayana mind training. It’s very deep and very powerful. And it has a special place for me because I was ill for much of the time […]
Chapter 6 of “The Warrior’s Solution”
[…] tell the child “You think you will live forever. You cannot live forever. All things are impermanent, you, like me, like everyone, will die one day.” Do taking and sending with all of the reactions that registers in the child’s face. The child’s form grows brighter with light, then tell the child, “You want to have […]
Chapter 8 of “A Trackless Path I”
[…] UCLA, probably a number of others at various universities around the country. Lots of papers. Lots of studies going on. You know what the next candidate is? Taking and sending. Student: Maybe they’ll patent it and [unclear]. [Laughter] Ken: Well, fortunately I think there’s enough of a history that the patent office will reject that. Well, […]
Chapter 3 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] a piece from their childhood where something very uncomfortable, very painful happened like some form of abuse or something like that. I will instruct people to do taking and sending with that child. What they’re doing taking and sending with is something that is locked inside them. And by doing that, they’re actually opening that up […]
Chapter 6 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] years ago I translated a book which is published under the title The Great Path of Awakening, and it’s a description of a technique of meditation called taking and sending. And it’s compassion meditation and in the commentary it’s described as the one path traveled by all buddhas. It’s extremely easy to infer from this kind […]
Chapter 30 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] to do these days but, yeah, that was the kind of person. He would just get really, really angry. And, I had him meditating for years on taking and sending, and things like that. And little by little, we’d chip away, and I remember once he was in his office, I came to see him and […]
Chapter 5 of “37 Practices in Four Parts”
[…] your response is: Dedicate to him your body, your wealth, and all the good you’ve ever done or will do. Now, this is an extreme example of taking and sending—of this exchange that we’ve been talking about—and that is what he’s doing here. We need to distinguish between our “practical life” and our life of spiritual […]
Chapter 4 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] in them than we are able to cover right now. And that becomes one’s practice in the same way that meditating on death and impermanence or doing taking and sending, and so forth. Some of you have taken up the practice of Chenrezi in the retreat we did last year. That’s something you can take up […]
Chapter 21 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] is shot off …. you know, your world falls apart; you’re just going to use those circumstances to wake up. This is what—those of you who studied taking and sending, and the mind training teachings—this is what it talks about, over and over again. Whatever adversity arises, you make use of it to wake up. Lynea. […]
Chapter 4 of “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva”
[…] as the genesis for a very deep form of compassion. But if you read Kongtrül in The Great Path of Awakening, he is recommending that you cultivate taking and sending, because through that you engender compassion, and with that engenderment of compassion, you open the door to having this level of awakening mind. So, it depends […]
Chapter 1 of “Guru, Deity, Protector”
[…] form of practice, sitting for a half an hour, doing qigong, sitting for a half an hour and so forth. If you have regular practices, such as taking and sending, or power practice, or Chenrezi some of you are doing, death meditations, whatever. Use one of those half-hour sessions—if you have two then you can use […]
Chapter 11 of “Mind Training in Seven Points”
[…] with all people, but this stuff is still in them and still driving their reactivity. So, sometimes just to imagine yourself in front of you and doing taking and sending with you. Gradually it opens up. And in the same way that we’re talking, respecting Newcomb’s question, you’re letting the patterns open to you. Another application—I […]
Chapter 33 of “Then and Now: A Commentary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
[…] because jealousy is the opposite of that. You resent the success of others. Again, if you read the chapter on patience in Shantideva, where he’s going through taking and sending practice and discussing joy, he’s absolutely hilarious on our reluctance to really feel joy in others’ successes. It’s so wonderfully precise about the kind of stuff […]